409Alcohol and drugs

409 Alcohol and drugs

(1) The operator of a mine must develop and implement strategies to protect persons at the mine from any risk to their health or safety arising from the consumption of alcohol or the use of drugs by any person.

(2) Strategies under this regulation must include the introduction of risk control measures on the presence and use of alcohol and drugs at the mine during working hours.

(3) Without limiting subregulations (1) and (2), the operator of a mine must ensure that—

(a) a person who, in the opinion of the operator, is adversely affected by alcohol or drugs does not enter or remain at the mine; and

(b) a person only uses drugs at the mine if a registered medical practitioner has prescribed the drugs and authorised their use at the mine.

(4) In this Part, a person is adversely affected by alcohol or drugs if the person's judgment or capacity is impaired to the extent that the person may expose—

(a) the person's health or safety to a risk; or

(b) another person's health or safety to a risk.